This Live Wallpaper is Hot: HPSTR Live

If you love Muzei, the fantastic live wallpaper app from Google’s Roman Nurik, you need to go download HPSTR Live Wallpaper immediately. Released today, HPSTR brings that hipster “sensation of motion” to your home screen with sourced imagery, wallpapers on intervals and more. Actually, forget the hipster part, this wallpaper app is just awesome.

HPSTR changes both the background and effects of a wallpaper at random, wallpapers that are sourced from 500px, reddit, and Unsplash. You can choose from specific categories, like black and white, journalism, abstract, people, nude, sport, and even spaceporn. There are filters, shapes and effects that can be applied to give you a new look each time the wall changes or you switch to a new category. Speaking of changes, you can tell HPSTR to change at select intervals, adjust dim, define the type of wallpaper scrolling, and more. This is, by all means, a fully-featured live wallpaper app.

In order to experience the full HPSTR effect, you will have to fork out $2.49 through an in-app purchase. If you just want to taste test the fun, you can for free.

Serious question for Kellen and the other DL guys. Do you get some sort of kick back for mentioning these apps?

cjwilburn

Be careful…. A few more of these comments and they are going to turn the comment section off like the “deal” threads…

Jared Denman

They should be careful. More of these garbage posts and they’ll be driving away their audience and I’ve been here since the OG droid.

cjwilburn

I’m already looking around… Wouldn’t be the first site I leave because of obtrusive ads and spam posts..

Frettfreak

Me either AC was the first. However, I don’t think dl that bad on this kinda stuff. They gotta make money somehow and this was obtrusive at all. No one forced anyone to click over and read this article. People did because it looked interesting. Maybe it’s not so interesting to you anymore but you all clicked on it for a reason so their choice couldn’t have been that bad

Jared Denman

Most people clicked on it to complain…. Myself included. Ok rant is over

derp hurr-durr

“Most people clicked on it to complain.”

You clicked to complain. A few others did.

This is all you know.

You have absolutely no basis on which to even begin to guess at majority opinion as you have no idea how many people clicked without commenting. A vocal majority in no way indicates mass opinion.

Between that and “The app is utter garbage so they (imho) have to be getting some kind of kickback.”, it’s pretty obvious the strength of your own personal opinions have blocked your ability to reason.

Tyler Durden

Bye bye

El Big CHRIS

Well, I mean they have to make a living. I have ad block, and I only click on these type of articles if I’m interested. There, easy fix.

BigTimmay

If it’s a slower news day, like it was yesterday, I don’t mind them doing posts like these.

Jared Denman

This used to be an android enthusiast website. Seems almost now it’s almost all paid advertising.

Tyler Durden

I don’t mind. They work hard and need to pay bills. Keep it up Tim and Kellen!

Jared Denman

I understand. My biggest gripe is that they used to showcase items/games/apps because they actually thought it was great. Now they showcase it because they get a kick back regardless if the item/app is any good!

Puck85

What evidence do you have that they are getting a kickback from this company? If you are going to attack someone’s journalistic and moral integrity, you ought to have more than just speculation in support. I’d like for someone to show up at your workplace and accuse you of unethical behavior without evidence. See how you like it.

Jared Denman

Been accused of it before. And who says it’s unethical? The app is utter garbage so they (imho) have to be getting some kind of kickback.

derp hurr-durr

“The app is utter garbage so they (imho) have to be getting some kind of kickback.”

Well that logic is just truly unassailable, isn’t it?

/smh

Jared Denman

Lol

Puck85

I can’t believe I have to explain this: In journalism and news reporting, it is widely considered unethical to receive an undisclosed kickback from the source that you are reporting on.

You’ve attacked the author’s motives for covering this topic. You’ve done so without any grounds, aside from disliking the app. You are free to critique what they cover and consider newsworthy. However, you cross into the realm of trolling and unreasonableness when you libel someone just to make the unrelated point that you think the topic isn’t worthy of coverage.

We receive zero kickback from the maker of this app, and actually, I’m still using it because it’s not garbage. Gotten like 5 updates recently and it’s pretty legit.

Steveo

I have a conspiracy theory that you have been the official admin account of the DL guys this whole time. And that’s exactly what they would say ._. hmmmmmm….

Steveo

I have a conspiracy theory that you have been the official admin account of the DL guys this whole time. And that’s exactly what they would say ._. hmmmmmm….

4n1m4L

5 ads before we can make it to the comment section of the best reader participation of the net…

ReturnOfTheMack

Sorry if something they’re showcasing costs money, less than you would spend on lunch at that.

Jared Denman

I understand. My biggest gripe is that they used to showcase items/games/apps because they actually thought it was great. Now they showcase it because they get a kick back regardless if the item/app is any good.

Wait a f*cking minute. And apologies for the language, but you actually think we get paid for writing up apps? Like, you actually believe that that’s a thing? I don’t even remember the last time we posted up a “sponsored post,” unlike other Android sites that do it regularly, or fill their timelines with SEO-spam posts. I think we have done 2-3 in our history, and none of which have been posted in likely 2 maybe even 3 years.

This app is cool, at least in our opinion, so we shared it. There isn’t a kick back. There isn’t any money involved whatsoever other than the ads you see on the page, which because of this comment, more than likely means you are blocking anyway. We thought it was a cool app and shared. If at some point we decide to post up “sponsored” posts, we’ll tell you, up front. We aren’t going to hide.

We try to provide awesome content here. We try not to just re-hash the other boring news stuff that comes across every other Android site on a typical day. We try to create content, share opinions, fun apps that we like, etc., to help differentiate us. Are you going to like every single post? No. I wouldn’t expect you to. But to come in and just throw our generalizations of poop like this, pisses me off.